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" How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. "
Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler - Página 8
por Lives - 1833
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 páginas
...reasoning on such subjects, the selfish system of ethics, revived by Hobbes in the seventeenth cent ury, who had borrowed it from the school of Epicurus, and...kind is pity or compassion, words appropriated to signify our fellow feeling with the sorrow of others." "Sympathy," he adds, " though its meaning was...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...seventeenth century, who had borrowed it from the school of Epicurus, and who bequeathed it as a thertie of everlasting cavil and epigrammatic paradox to that...kind is pity or compassion, words appropriated to signify our fellow feeling with the sorrow of others." "Sympathy," he adds, " though its meaning was...
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The History of Moral Science, Volumen2

Robert Blakey - 1833 - 378 páginas
...those with whom we are upon terms of intimacy and friendship. " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it...
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History of Moral Science, Volumen2

Robert Blakey - 1836 - 388 páginas
...which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though lie derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it or are made to conceive it...
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The Image of God in Man: Four Sermons, Preached Before the Univeristy of ...

William Harness - 1841 - 128 páginas
...we shall find most sufficient reasons for believing that 2 " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others when we either see it, or are made to conceive it,...
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The theory of moral sentiments, or, An essay towards an analysis of the ...

Adam Smith - 1853 - 616 páginas
...SECTION L OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY* CHAPTER I. Of Sympathy. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1860 - 880 páginas
...Smith's " Theory " was the earliest reaction. He says, — " How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature...nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." " To denote this fellow-feeling with any passion whatever," — he uses the term sympathy — which...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumen2

1860 - 444 páginas
...Smith's " Theory " was the earliest reaction. He says, —" How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it...
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Journal

Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - 1861 - 526 páginas
...adopt the manners and prefer the interests of those they lived with. There are principles of man's nature which interest him in the fortune of others,...render their happiness necessary to him, though he derive nothing from itbut the pleasure of seeing it. The sociability of the Irish, their greater ease...
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Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation ...

Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 páginas
...SEC. I.— OF THE SENSE OF PROPRIETY. CHAP. I.— Of Sympathy. How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature,...of seeing it. Of this kind is pity or compassion, the emotion which we feel for the misery of others, when we either see it, or are made to conceive...
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